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Greater Kings Mountain 10,320
City Limits 8,256
This figure for Greater Kingt Mountain ii derived from
the i9S5 King* Mountain city directory census. The city
limits figure is from the United States census of 1965.
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Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
VOL 77 No. 30
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, July 28, 1966
Seventy-Seventh Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Mullinax’s Home Run Gives Teeners State Title
ORDAINED — Harold Ellis has
been ordained as mii^ter of
music and education of First
Boptist church of Chesnee, S. C
Harold Ellis
Is Ordained
Harold Ellis, Kings Mountain
native and son of Mr. and' Mrs.
Darvin C. Ellis, was ordained as
minister of of music and educa
tion at First Baptist church of
Chesnee, S. C. Sunday, July 17th.
A graduate of Kings Mountain
high school and Gardn&r-Webb
Junior college, Ellis will be a
senior at Limestone college in
Gaff^y, S. C. in the fall where
he wih continue his studies.
Mrs Ellis is the former San
dra Spangler of Grover. The
Ellises have occupied their new
home on route 1, Chesnee, and
the Women’s Missionary Union
of the church sponsored an open
house and welcome party for
them July,,17th which tjme the
church members Jnowered the
couple with household gifts.
At the ordination services Rev.
> Charles Pl'ospt, associate pastot
of Spartanburg’s First Baptist
church, delivered the sermon.
The charge to the candidate was
also made by Rev. Prospt, assist
ed by Rev Ernest A. Mefaffey,
pastor of the Chesnee church.
Locals Defeat
City Board Adopts $1.3 Million Budget
Glenn Brookshire
KMHS Principal
Carl McCxaw
Is Betiiing
Carl G. McCraw, Cleveland
County native, ended 42 years
with First Union Natioifal Bank
in Charlotte Tuesday by an
nouncing his retirement as chair
man of the board and chief exe
cutive oUicer.
The bank’s board of directors
elected C. C. Cameron to suc
ceed McCraw, who began his
banking career in 1924. -
Cameron said a four-iman man
agement team will be formed to
manage the tank’s affairs. Serv
ing with Cameron and Carl Me
Craw, Jr. as part of the team
will bo the bank’s two first exe
cutive vice presidents, C C. Hope,
Jr. and W. J. Smith, Jr.
Carl G. McCraw, Jr. will con
tinue as president of the 92-offi-
cor bank, the state’s third larg
est
Cameron, a former Raleigh
resident, was vice-chairman of
the board and president of Cam
eron-Brown Co- before his elec
tion as board chairman and chief
executive officer.
Asheboio Man
Assumes Post
On Wednesday
G. Glenn Brookshire, 34, as
sumed duties Wednesday as
principal of Kings Mountain
high school.
Mr. Brookshire comes to Kings
Mountain from Asheboro where
he served for six years as prin
cipal of Guy B. Teachey City
Schools.
He and his wife were investi
gating' housing facilities yester
day and expect to move as quick
ly as passible.
“Mrs Brookshire and I arriv
ed in Kings Mountain early Wed
nesday and we’re looking for
ward with great anticipation to
ward our new work and we are
happy to become a part of Kings
Mountain,” said the new princi
pal.
A native of Taylorsville, son
of Mr. arid Mrs. W. L. Brook
shire, Mr. Bi’ookshire holds an
AB degree from Lenoir Rhyne
college and a MA degree from
Appalachian state Teacher’s col
lege? ; ‘
He lauj^t*for two y&ars in liFs
liome town, returned to ASTC
for^ graduate work in 1957-38,
subsequently was principal of
Pageland high school in Page-
land, S. C., was a memi'oer of the
faculty of Warren Wilson col
lege in Swann anoa, and went
from Swannanoa to Asheboro as
assistant principal of the city
schools.
Mrs. Brookshire is the former
Judy Freeman of Asheboro. A
graduate of Wake Forest college,
she has been a member of the
faculty of Asheboro Junior High
school the past six years. She
has done graduate work at UNC,
Chapel Hill.
In Asheboro the Brookshires
were members of Graystone Bap
tist phurch and Mr. Brookshire
was Sunday School superintend
ent of the young people’s depart
ment.
Safe Haul Nets
Thieves $700
Kings Mountain police are con
tinuing their investigation of
Sunday night’s robbery at East
King Esso.
Police reported that around
$700 in cash was taken from a
small safe in a back room of the
station sometime early Monday
morning. The thieves broke in
through a back window, into a
grease pit, tore off some planks
to get into the back room and
tore the safe open.
Sgt. Earl Stroupc was the in
vestigating officer and 'he re
ports that he has some small
clues and that the investigation
is stUl underway.
MEMORIAL GIFTS
Kings Mountain Rotary club
has purchased books for the
new public library in Venezue'
la in memory of the Jate Ger
aid Munson, a former club
president. Bob Munson, son of
Mrs. Munson and the late Mr.
Munson, is « Peace Corps vol
unteer there and was instru-
mentai in the library’s organi
zation
Trinity School
Opens Sept. 6
Classes at Trinity Day School
will Icegin Tuesday, September
6th, according to announcement
by Rev. Robert Haden, headmas
ter.
A first grade will be operated
as well as a kindergarten for
fdui'^^ar-olds and a pre-school
for five-year-olds
Headmaster Haden also an
nounced the following holiday
schedule for students:
Thanksgiving holidays, Thurs
day and Friday, November 24
and 25.
Christmas holidays. December
21 through January 2.
Easter vacation, March 23-27.
The last day of school will be
May 26.
Here's Where City
Tax Money Will Go
Here’s where your elty ad
valorerrt tax money will go this
year;
A total of 13.4 cents accrues
to the general fund, for general
expenses incident to operating
the city government.
A total of 16.6 cents accrues
to the debt service account to
discount outstanding bonds
and pay interest.
A tdtal of 48.0 is levied for
making permanent improve
ments. . , 1 I j
Five cents is levied for
maintaining a recreation pro
gram and for upkeep of equip,
ment.
The total: 85 cents per $100
valuAtion.
SELECTED — Don Crawford
of Kings Mountain has been
selected to serve on the Na
tional Wood Badge staff for on
eight-day course for Scouters
at Philmont Scout Ranch in
Cimarron. New ^Mexico. Mr.
and Mrs. Crawford and their
daughter, Donna, lerive Sunday
and expect to he awjry .|br^e
weeks. % V
Dr. Nteore ^
Kiwanis Speaker
Dr.- Charles R Moore, Grover
medical doctor, ’ will ifae gu»t
speaker at Thursday’s Kiwanis
club meeting at 6:45 p.m. at the
Woman’s club.
A native of Houston, Texas,
Dr. Moore was educated at the
University of Tennessee and
graduatd from Medical School in
1962. He served in the Army
from 1963-65 wUh^ 10 months
service in Viet mim. He holds
both the Air Medal and Com-'
mendation Medal.
School Reels Ring
Again On Aug. 24
School bells ring a^ain for
Kings Mountain district pupils
August 24th.
First full schedule day will be
on August 25th. Teachers will
report for work on August 22
and orientation day for pupils
will be on August' 24th.
ROTARY CLUB
A program, “Missionary Ex
periences In the Orient”, will
feature Thursday's Rotary
-club meeting at 12:15 at Kings
Mountain Country club. Pen-
ton Larson will present his
nephew who will be gpiest
speaker.
No Change
In Tax Rate
For Used Year
The city board of commission
ers Tuesday adopted a $1,320,486
budget for the 1966-67 fiscal
year, largest in the city’s his
tory;
Kings Mountain’s ad valorem
tax rate will be 85 cents per $100
valuation for the current year,
sai.T.e rate as last year.
The budget, which has been
in the planning stages for sev
eral months, includes pavinr ol
all unpaved streets in the city
and providing sewer service to
every area in the city. Mayor
John H. Moss told, hjs full board
at the regular commission meet
ing.
An 11 percent pay hike for
city employees has already been
granted and went into effect
July 1.
Other capital improvements in
the budget call for the construe
tion of a one-million-gallon wat
er storage tank and the construe-:
tion of a public works and utili
ty building.
The city commission authoriz
ed the mayor to proceed with
sites, plans and specifications
for the projected building to be
erected on six acres the - city
owns on North Hedimont* and
McGinnis street. *;( ,
The ^nevv utility' building will
provide space under one roof for
all utility units of the city and
will facilitate the establishment
of the alredy authorized purchas-
_ tyid inventory control sys
tem;' ’ . ,
- ,The new water tank willbrirnj
the cityjs present capacity of fin-
ishedAvater to 2,300.000 gallons.
Water Plant Supt. George Moss
said the average daily usage for
the first 181 days of 1966 is 1.5
rrrillion gallons. -*
In addition, the budget pro
vides the purchase of an ad<4i-
tional patrol car, the purchase of
a car for the fire chief and a
new pumper car.
“This budget will provide
services in a program of plan
ned growth which will establish
Kings Mountain as progressive
and competitive in industry and
business and will make the city
a better place to live; work and
play’’, the mayor said.
“The budget calls for impnev-
cd streets, parking, garbage and
debris collection, and excellent
water supply, an expanding r^-
roation program, additional fice
and police protection, sewer
service to every home, among
otlier services,” the mayor add
ed
REVENUES
Major item of anticipated in
come, as is customary, will come
from power and water sales, es
timated^ $592j00. The city has
Dpropriated surplus from
Kings Mountain Illative Wins
TopArmyResearchContract
Dewitt Blanton
In Research Post
In Alabama
an unapF
IN MEXICO — Robert Phifer of
Kings Mountain is among 21
Carolinos young people and
ARP's helping build a camp
ground for Mexican Presby
terians.
Robert Phifer "
On Teen Project
Robert Phffer, sOn of Mr. and
.Mrs. WendeH Phifer of Kings
Mountain and a June graduate
of Kings Mountain high school,
is among 21 young people fronri
the Carolinas helping build a
campground for Mexican Pres
byterians high in the Eastern
Sierra Madre Mountains.
Phifer is expected to return
home August 4th. He is sponsor
ed by Bbyce Memorial Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church of
which he is a member and active
in the Young People’s Christian
Union_
Site of the new campgrounds
is a small town called Ciudad
lei Maiz (City of Corn) about 170
miles from the Mexican city of
Tampico and 4000 feet above
sea level.
There, members o f ARP
churches in the Carolinas " and
four other Southern states are
working hand-in-hand with Mex
ican townspeople in the area
where ARP missionaries ibogan
working in Mexico in 1899.
The young people were sub
ject of a feature story, “Caro
linas Teens Builds (Latins A
CHiurch” by Earl Lawrimore in
Sunday’s Charlotte Observer.
the previous year of $2.57,9.50.64 Excerpts from the story fol-
and expects to receive $39,096.40 .
from. Powell Bill gas funds forj These youngstei-s are oxpen-
strectwork. It anticipates a pro
fit of $127,910.00 from the Natur-
Continued On Page 6
Foote Promotes R. Deveie Smith
To Operations' Accounting Head
VROMOTKD — Devera R. Smith
bos bMn pramotsd to account
ing manage of minorol* op-
•rottoni tft Foote Ninozal
Rompcmfi
E. R.,Gbtcr, Manager of Foote
Mineral Company, Kings Moun
tain Opetations, announces the
promoton of DeVere R. Smith to
the position of Accounting Man
ager —I Minerals Operations, ef
fective August 1.
Mr. Smith will have staff re
sponsibilities for the Accounting,
functions at the Kings Mountain
N. C., Asbury, Tennessee. Kim
ballton and Sunbright, Virginia
Operations.
Mr.’Smith has been with Foote
Mineral Company since 1953 an(
most recently served as Plant
Acx-ountant and Administrative
Assistant at the Kings Mountain
Operations.
He is a member of the Church
Council at Resurrection Lutheran
church, and active in civic or
ganizations and projects. He is
past president of the Kings
Mountain Heart Fund. Mr. Smith,
his wife and two children will
continue to make their home in
magi Momitais.
encing a once-in-a-lifetimo ex
perience living in ‘old Mexico’
and not in a tourist Mexico,”
writes Mrs. Milton Blakely of
Laui'ens, S. C., an adult adviser.
“The natives of the town,
though mainly Catholics, are
friendly and have invited them
to play basketball each evening,
to a school fesllval at night and
to visit their school while in ses
sion.”
In return the Americans had
an “at home” party for theiir
Mexican friends, serving refresh
ments and entertaining about
150 local teen-agers.
Mrs. Blakely reports that the
“Yanqui" teen-agers are fasci-
Continued Oif, Page (i
Hambright Member
Of Panelbt Group
Myers Hambright. Kings-Moun
tain high school agricullure
teachdr. is among panelists for
the 1966 Conference, Soiitliern
Regional Research Committee in
Agriculture Education, continu
ing through Friday at North
Carolina State University in Ra
leigh.
Mr. Hambdght went fo Ra
leigh Wednesday. That evening
he led the mmelists in a discus
Sion of‘■’‘RiMponsibllity for Re
search in Agriadture—tlie Roles
toTvbe cj 11 ..
Dr C. Dewitt Blanton, Jr.,
Kings Mountain native, and a re
search professor at Auburn Uni
versity, Alabama-, has been nai.m-
ed chief investigator for a $32,-
872 Army government contract
for research -on a new drug-re
sistant malariia strain.
The contract, awarded through
the commanding general of the
U. S. Medical Research and De
velopment Command, is part of
the most intensive anti-malarial
research since the close of World
War II. "
So high is the incidence of ma
laria in Southeast Asia that
Blanton of Auburn’s School of
Pharmacy was contacted sever
al months ago by Walter Reed
hospital in Washington to “see
if he was working on anything
which might be relevant.”
The Kings Mountain man has
gained some pro.minence for re
search on a new drug to treat
certain mental disorders. A son
of Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Blanton,
he lias been an associate, re
search professor of pharmaceuti
cal and medicinal chemistry with
Auburn since 1964. He received
his B.S. degree-from Western
Carolina college and the Ph.D.
froim the University of Mississip
pi.
Although Blanton was not do
ing anything specific in the anti-
malarial field, Prof George Har
greaves, nam^ assistant investi
gator for the project, had done
some investigation of quinoline-
quinones. ,
Their work, which began June
1,. is expected to continue for a
twoyear period.
The new drug-resistant ma
laria strain could pose as .real
and deadly a threat as the Viet
Cong to U.S. military ground
personnel in the jungle and
brush area of Vietnam, the pro
fessors say.
It has been shown that some
of the currently used quinine
substitutes are converted to this
type of compound before they
become effective. Since tlie nevy
malaria parasites have resisted
all known s.vnthetic anti-mala
rifls, the (juinine alkaloid.s hsivo | ments for the year 1965-66. Sales
returned to their position of f.^r- j this week totaled nearly $3,000.
importance as therapeutic
INVESTIGATOR — Dr; C De
witt Blanton. Kings Mountain
native and young research
professor at Auburn Universi
ty, will be chief investigator
for a research contract in the
Army's anti-malaria fight.
Foui’Yeai Gcant
To Joy Gieene
Jay Carol Greene, daughter of
Mrs. Sunnie S. Greene of Kings
Mountain and the late -William
H. Greene, is one of nine North
Carolina students awarded col
lege scholarships from the N. C.
Veterans ConK.r.ission.
Miss Greene will be a fresh
man at Western Carolina col
lege, Cullowhee, in the fall.
ff.
The scholarships are awarded
to certain children of disabled or
deceased wartime veterans. Each
schalarshiip is for four academic
years.
Saturday Last Day
To Buy License
Saturday is the last day you
can purchase a city privilege
license without penalty.
State law* requires the license
be purchased during the month of
July and penalty of five percent
per month applies after August
The city expects to receive
$5,(X)0 in privilege license pay-
Wayne'Mullinax hit*^a two-run -
homer in the bottom of the
eighth inning Wednesday after
noon to give Kings Mountain’s
Teener League all-stars a 6-4 win
over Gastpnia in the state
championships in Greenville, N.
C.
Darrell Whetstine was the
winning pitcher. Whetstine came
in after Gastonia loaded the
bases off Mullinax in the fourth.
tine served up a home run
pitcH:^ shortstop Mike Claussen
which put the Gastons ahead 4-2
at the time.
Kings Mountain had lost to
Gastonia 4-3 in a morning game
Wednesday morning forcing the
state championship into an aft
ernoon game
The locals took an early 2-0
lead in the first inning when
second baseman Mike Smith hit
a homer with Glenn Perkins a-
board. The Mounties brought the
game closer at 4-3 in the fifth
and tied the game at 4-all in the
bottom of the seventh when
Claussn made two straight er
rors after two outs were made.
Gastonia ace pitcher Dale
Dates—who hurled three perfect
innings against KM in Wednes
day morning’s game—had the
Mounties in check for two and
two-thirds innings Wednesday
afternoon. ,
'Bates came on after KM scor
ed in the fifth and retired eight
straight batters until Claussen
threw wild at first when Joe
Cornwell hit a routine grounder
which would have ended the
game.
Corn'well was awarded second
base when Bates was charged
with a balk and the fast-running
outfielder scored the tying run
when Claussen booted an infield
grounder off the bat of Perkins.
Smith grounde dout to end the"
KM seventh.
Bates, who has been bothered
with arm trouble since Tuesday,
was relieved by southpaw Don
Davis in the eighth^
Gone Putniam led off the KM
eighth with a single to center-
field ‘and Mullinax cooly parked
the first pitch to him over the
leftfield fence for his second
homer of the day. Mullinax hit
another hemer in Wednesday
morning’s game.
Kings Mountain Mayor John
Henry Moss sent the Teeners a
congratulation telegram immedi
ately following the decisive vic
tory. Moss’s telegram read:
“Congratulate coaches and play
ers on winning North Carolina
State championship. All of Kings
Mountain is proud of you. We
are with you all the way—let’s
become National Champions. Re
gards, John Henry Moss, Mayor,
City of Kings Mountain.”
mcr importance as
agents.
Together, and in conjunction
with other researchers in this
area, it is hoped that an effec
tive ne wanti-maiarial drug may
. Continued On Page ti
METHODIST TOPIC
The Rev. Howard R. Jordan’s
sermon topic Sunday at Cen
tral Methodist Church will be
“The Prayer that Jesus Refus
ed to Pray”.
Kings Mountain Seiviceman Cox
Gets Promotion To Lt. Colonel
WINS PROMO-nON — Lt. Col.
Robert (Bob) Cox of Kings
Mountedn has been promoted.
He is executive officer at New
Cumberland, Pa, Army Depot
near Uorrisburg.
NEW CUMBERLAND. PA. —
Robert G. Cox, 509" West Moun
tain St., Kings Mountain, was
promoted July 14 to the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel in the United
States Army, He is presently
stationed at New Cumberland
(Pa.) Army Depot, near Harris
burg,. Pennsylvania as the exe
cutive officer tor the Directorate
: I for Maintenance.
] Colonel Cox ils a veteran of 18
j I years enlisted and convmdssioncd I
Army service, and-prior to com-1
;, ing to .New Cumberland in Feb-1
‘' ruary 1966 served a year in '
11 Koi-ea as the commanding of fi-
i ] cer of the 19th Helicopter Com-
! pany.
I As an enlisted man in 1949
1 and 19,50 he served as a military
policeman in the Hawaiian Is
lands, and following receipt of a
comimission in 1951 held posi
tions as provost marshal in the
United States and Japan.
Returning_to Army Reserve
status in 195^ Colonel Cox was
accepted for flight training, and
before being recalled to active
Continnad On Pa^fe 6
ACE HURLES—Pictured abov*
is Darrell Whetstin*, fht ae* of
the Kings MoutAedn Toonor
League pitching stafL who
posted throo wins this wook ia
Greenville, N. C., as tho locate
swept to tho state chomploa*
ship. Whetstine won tho lost
gome Wodnesdoy ia lolioL
however, it was a two-iua
homer in the bottom of th*',
eighth by Wayno
which teU tin-tela